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Re: how tire size affects tire wear
- Subject: Re: how tire size affects tire wear
- From: "Kevin M. Gregg" <kevingregg@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 10:10:38 -0400
At 10:06 AM 6/7/01 -0300, Joao T. da Costa wrote:
>The contact patch is larger--otherwise there would be no advantage to
>wider tires.
Hhmmm... isn't the contact patch of a 17 inch 245 series tire the same as
the contact patch of a 18 inch 245 series tire?
>I would suppose that, generally speaking, lower profiles tend to go hand
>in hand with softer compounds.
Makes sense to me.
Kevin
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